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Theory High: the structure of the symptom in...

**Below is some early drafting from my UNSW plenary paper for next week.** The structure of the symptom in psychoanalysis exhibits many of the features that one can attribute to transgression or transformation. Symptoms are anachronistic, without time; there is never a ‘right time’ for a symptom to emerge. While symptoms may vary in what they are, their basic structure points in...

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BBC - BBC Radio 3 Programmes - Night Waves, Slavoj... →

I <3 Zizek, but loathe Diamond… Maybe this will change my mind on both.

Aug 25th

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joeanthonyy: Yes, these are all my plush toys. Yes, I made a video using them as my characters. Yes, this video contains 30 shots and goes for exactly 1:00 minute. I love it! It’s exactly the sort of conversation that my inner dramalama and Loki adore.

Aug 24th

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Aug 24th

1 - 5 September 2010 - Brisbane Writers Festival →

I discovered a collection of older cynical disenchanted leftists at the last one of these. Not that writers are all left-wing, but it was an amusing indictment of that particular year’s mood. The programme this year looks a bit more upbeat.

Aug 24th

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4pm Friday, NCT Tute Questions

Without using Google or Wikipedia, try to answer the following and post your answers to your blog. Provide the URL (with the date you accessed it) of where you found the answer, and include extras like images, embedded videos, etc. 1. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? Where is it and what does it do? 2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Katy...

Aug 24th

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3pm Wednesday, NCT Tute Questions

Without using Google or Wikipedia, try to answer the following and post your answers to your blog. Provide the URL (with the date you accessed it) of where you found the answer, and include extras like images, embedded videos, etc. 1. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? Who built it and why? 2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Tom Waits? 3. When...

Aug 24th

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1pm Wednesday, NCT Tute Questions

Without using Google or Wikipedia, try to answer the following and post your answers to your blog. Provide the URL (with the date you accessed it) of where you found the answer, and include extras like images, embedded videos, etc. 1. What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build? 2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Ozzy Osborne?...

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Musings of an Inappropriate Woman: The best of the... →

Weekend reading on sex, media, creativity and the Australian election (coming to a head today - get your vote on!). If you read one thing this weekend, make it: If you read Australia’s election campaign shows a country that wants to cut itself off from the rest of the world: … This…

Aug 20th

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The horrific sounds of off-key music outside. Sometimes the music’s been good, but mostly… ugh.

Aug 18th

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the return for 3615HUM Summer Philosophy School

Well, it seems that my boutique/pet final-year undergrad philosophy school, 3615HUM Contemporary Philosophy and Popular Culture, has been invited back for another intensive round at Griffith University. I just filled out the paperwork to have it run from the 31st of January to the 11th of February, 2011. Of course, the catch is that I need at least 20 students enrolled… Those numbers are...

Aug 18th

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Metric Surveillance? Yes, it's coming people!

From one of the “reputable” outlets: The approach could allow automatic computer screening of surveillance images of public places, so human operators could be alerted to suspicious people or behaviours before a catastrophe occurred, he said. Hmm, okay… So the current surveillance that stops no one and flags few, only ever in retrospect, is meant to become pre-emptive? I...

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Friendster parody, Mashable

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Commonalities: Theorizing the Common in... →

Tim Campbell kindly asked if I could put out the notice, so here it is! Commonalities Conference (for diacritics) @ Cornell, Sept 24-25, 2010. Such a great lineup! I wish I could go!

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(via Un Chien Anadalou) Now, I would like to turn to the other great technological innovation of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: cinema. Where the juxtapositions of photomontage are constructed in a kind of meta-opposition between unmanipulated photographs and photomontage or collage, cinema is montage. But this type of montage was given a strange twist at the end of the 1920s that...

Aug 14th

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Mad People See and Speak No Evil - Joga Kidd The wealth of Second Life (SL) machinima has waned recently. Things are still being produced, but the darkly sexualised horror thematic of Joga Kidd’s Mad People See and Speak No Evil from 2009 doesn’t seem to appear very often. Clips like this are an interesting study in the symptomology of what grows out of the swamps of the SL...

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CFP: Cybercultures 6 - Exploring Critical Issues

6th Global Conference Cybercultures - Exploring Critical Issues Friday 11th March – Sunday 13th March 2011 Prague, Czech Republic Call for Papers This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues and implications created by the growing adoption of information technologies for inter-human communication. The project will also focus on...

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